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Chusquea gigantea

Large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Base of culms + stem bracts; large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

bracts on mature culms, in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Young branchlets at node of mature culm, in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Foliage and pendent flower spikes, large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Many branchlets at culm node, in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

Pendent flower spikelet with anthers, on large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

Pendent flower spikelet with anthers, on large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>.

3 of numerous seedlings, self-established beside a large clump in garden near Fordell, Whanganui.<br>Photographer: Colin C. Ogle, Date taken: 07/02/2019, Licence: <a target='_blank' href='https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0'>CC BY-NC</a>. <a class='member-message' href='/nzpcn/why-join-nzpcn/' target='_blank'>Members can view a larger version of this image.</a>

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Common names

Giant chusquea bamboo

Biostatus

Exotic

Conservation status

Not applicable

Category

Vascular

Structural class

Trees & Shrubs - Monocotyledons

Simplified description

Clumping bamboo with robust solid (not hollow) culms.

Detailed taxonomy

Genus

Family

Authority

Chusquea gigantea J. P. Demoly

Endemic family

No

Ecology

Flowering

Flowering near Whanganui, New Zealand in December 2018.

Fruiting

Self-established seedlings first seen in New Zealand in 2018 (vouchered Feb 2019).

Propagation technique

rooted culms; seed